Austin Gunman Fired 100 Rounds, Tried to Burn Mexican Consulate

[cali]

A gunman in Austin, Texas, tried to burn down the Mexican consulate and fired more than 100 rounds at city buildings and at a police officer early today before dying of a bullet wound.

It was not immediately clear whether the shooter, identified by ABC News as Larry Steven McQuilliams, 49, was killed by police or shot himself, authorities said.

Austin Police Department Assistant Chief Raul Munguia, speaking at a news conference, said residents reported hearing shots at 2:22 a.m., and calls continued to come in as the suspect was “attacking government facilities.” Police said the timing of the attack was especially dangerous because bars were closing in downtown Austin, sending potentially thousands of people onto the streets.

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The suspect tried to set the Mexican consulate ablaze and successfully ignited a fire, but it extinguished before the consulate was significantly damaged, police said. He also unleashed a barrage of bullets at the Austin Police Department, a federal courthouse and a downtown bank, authorities said.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/suspected-shooter-injured-targeting-buildings-austin-texas/story?id=27229703

Possibly a right wing antii-immigrant teaparty fuckwad.

[PeoViejo]

1. My guess too.

Must be the Ferguson Counter-Demonstration we all heard about.

[True Blue Door]

2. We should know soon if it's another Tea-rrorist attack or a legit nutjob.

[yeoman6987]

3. In Austin? Doubtful. Very liberal city.

[cali]

5. yeah, but it's surrounded by lots and lots of red territory.

[Hoyt]

6. Well the guy does appear steeped in gun love and he was after a Mexican Consulate. Might be early,

but my bet is he's a right wing hater. We'll see.

[Kingofalldems]

14. So you think a liberal did it?

Funny.

[m-lekktor]

15. yes because everybody knows no right wingers ever enter liberal cities.

you really thought that one out before you posted didn't you.

[JI7]

16. i'm pretty sure Austin doesn't ban non liberals from coming in

[MineralMan]

4. There is a Steve Mcquilliams in Austin

who has a FB page. Please note that this may not be the shooter, although he appears to be the same age. It's just a page to look at.

https://www.facebook.com/steve.mcquilliams?fref=browse_search

[pinboy3niner]

7. Local TV station KVUE used a photo from that FB account in a story on the shooting

Officials identify suspect in downtown shooting
http://www.kvue.com/story/news/local/2014/11/28/shooter-targets-downtown-buildings/19605941/

[MineralMan]

8. Could be. I don't know, yet.

Unusual last name. I thought I'd try just using the middle name to search. We'll see if this is the one. Last FB post was 13 hours ago.

[Rhinodawg]

9. Thanks for posting.

[Monk06]

10. Pic with homemade tri corner hat sez bagger to me. Oddly looks like Steve Martin in The Jerk

[ucrdem]

11. Remember the Alamo

... is in San Antonio.

[Wella]

12. He sounds truly mentally ill. Fortunately, he did not shoot at people, just buildings

Got lucky there. The mentally ill guy in Florida shot up a library full of students and paralyzed one of them.

http://news.yahoo.com/florida-state-student-paralyzed-library-shooting-sister-192000302.html


And that Florida shooter, Myron May, was a Democrat (and African American). His choice of university for his shooting spree did not mesh with Democratic politics. It could be that this shooter in this case was equally mentally ill and not necessarily politically motivated. The police chief in Austin jumped the gun with his unsupported assessment. He needs to step back from that.

[Gothmog]

13. It sounds like this idiot went off the deepend

More and more conservatives are becoming unhinged

[UTUSN]

17. Liberal Austin is still in (****) Texas. But in 1966 it wasn't the "Mexican consulate"

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[font size=5]Charles Joseph Whitman [/font]
(June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966) was an American engineering student and former U.S. Marine, who killed 16 people and wounded 32 others in a spree shooting in Austin, Texas on the University of Texas at Austin campus in and around the Tower on the afternoon of August 1, 1966. Three people were shot and killed inside the university's tower and eleven others were murdered after Whitman fired at random from the 28th-floor observation deck of the Main Building. Whitman was shot and killed by Austin police officer, Houston McCoy.[1][2][3][4][5]

Prior to the shootings at the University of Texas at Austin, Whitman had murdered both his wife and mother in Austin. The shooting would remain the deadliest shooting on a U.S. college campus until the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. ....

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